335 Customers at $25 = $100k SaaS
50/335 . Once I have 335 users paying me $25 per month, I have 100k SAAS business thats crazy.
Agentic AI Powers Rapid Rocket-Tracking App for Student Entrepreneurs
🤖 Just did the kickoff guest lecture at Stanford Business School for "The AI Awakening" — a new class cross-listed with CS where the students will use agentic AI to forge new businesses in 3-person teams. So I vibe coded a...
Beware Unfunded Liabilities: Visionaries Who Drain Your Resources
In business we call this an unfunded liability. Someone who shows up with vision, no capital, no execution, and expects YOU to finance the whole operation. He had ideas for my business. One month later: a broken website and a request for me...
AGI Pricing Spans $20/Month to $10 Billion
The pricing tiers for AGI are something like (1) $20/month, (2) $200/day = ~$75,000/year, (3) $1,000/day = ~$350,000/year, and (4) ~$10 billion. For now.
Our FINRA Portal Enables 7% Success Fees for Reg CF
We own and operate a FINRA Funding Portal, which can legally charge success fees in Reg Cf raises (i.e. 7% of a $5m raise). This Funding Portal is a key element in helping us bring interactive investing shows mainstream.
Anthropic's $30B Surge Overtakes OpenAI's Revenue
Anthropic went from 1B to 30B in 15 months. Overtook OpenAI in revenue. Here’s the real picture everyone missed👇
Distribution Beats Product: Build Your Brand’s Delivery Engine
Build Scalable Distribution The best brand in the world dies in obscurity without distribution. Amazon didn't win with one great product. They built the engine to deliver everything, everywhere, consistently. Your personal brand needs the same infrastructure.
Founders Build Brilliantly, Yet Struggle Scaling Operations
The harsh reality is that most founders are terrible operators and people managers to start. I sure was. I had strong instincts for product design, and some innate leadership skills, but that’s not the same thing as leading a company with...
Most AI Startups Should Bootstrap, Keep Full Ownership
The vast majority of ai startups I meet (outside of capital intensive areas like foundational models, semis, defense) would be better off bootstrapping in the long run. Best time ever to own 100 pct.
Founder Charisma: Powerful Tool, Yet Fatal Governance Risk
Just finished reading the @RonanFarrow piece in @NewYorker . My Takeaway: Reality distortion fields are not a bug in entrepreneurship, they are a feature. Albeit a Faustian one. And Farrow captures that paradox beautifully. These reality distortion fields can operate...
Obsession, Not Discipline, Drives the Best Founders
Never built through discipline. Built through obsession. The best founders I know aren't more disciplined than everyone else. They just found the thing they can't stop thinking about.
Treat AI as OS, Launch in 30 Minutes
I’ve seen solopreneurs go from “no plan” to a 7‑day launch + content calendar in under 30 minutes when they stop treating AI like a chatbot. The shift: use it like an operating system. One place that knows: - your offers - your revenue...
North America VC Record: 87% AI Funding in Q1
A $252.6B quarter. 💥 North America funding shattered records in Q1, with 87% going to AI. $221B was poured into companies like @OpenAI and @Anthropic. Fewer deals. More capital into winners. Big implications for what comes next. 👀 https://t.co/X325jhmfm2 https://t.co/PTXFUrjfKJ
Get a Top-Tier Website for $25k in One Month
I remember at my first startup we spent $150,000+ and 12 months building a brand new website that got scrapped 6 months later for another costly and lengthy rebuild. Now, you pay $25k and you get a top tier website in...
Silicon Valley's Next Trend: $300 Cofounder Crash Pads
The next big idea in #SiliconValley may be $300 no-frills crash pads like the 1 #Zuckerberg holed up in w/perfecting #Facebook. They call them #cofounderrooms. #SanFran #realestate #BayArea #multifamily #tech #mortgage #dorms https://t.co/fyROnuYp9V
Commenting Generates Referrals Better Than Cold Outreach
Nobody talks about this enough: Commenting on other people's posts is a referral machine. I've gotten more introductions from simply engaging with other entrepreneurs online than from any outbound campaign. Build your network before you need it. The referrals that come from genuine relationships...
Prioritize 4‑hour Days over 7‑figure Titles
Stop trying to be a '7-figure CEO'. Start trying to be a 'work 4 hours a day' founder. The goal isn't a bigger number. It's a better life. Build systems that serve you, not the other way around.
Join Zoom Office Hours for A16z Speedrun Applications
hosting zoom office hours this week for a16z speedrun you'll be able to apply to a16z speedrun in just a few weeks, so so come AMA. first come, first served drop a comment + like and I'll DM you a calendly link...
Learn Inside a Business, Then Leverage AI to Scale
How to go from $100 to your first $1M in e-commerce (the 4-phase ladder anyone can use): $100 TO $10,000: DON'T START A BUSINESS. Get a job inside a real business and be a sponge for everything they do. I worked at a...
Start Unscalable, Then Let AI Scale You
prev startup advice: do things that don't scale 2026 update: do things that don't scale, then build AI agents to scale them
Immigrant Rabbi Turned Marshmallow Maker Creates Iconic Peeps
The guy who invented Peeps has one of the most interesting stores I’ve ever heard: Sam Born was a Russian Jewish immigrant who studied to become a rabbi in Ukraine. - Came to America. Made candy instead. - Named his company "Just Born",...
True Founders Experience Investor Ghosting After Signed Docs
You’re not a real founder until an investor ghosts you after signing docs and tells you they’re ready to wire.
Integrations Only When Customers Demand, Not Startup Pitch
Recently more than one person called my Health Tech startup @SeamlessMD the “incumbent”. While we’ve been around 13+ years, it feels strange to call ourselves that - probably because we view the EHR as the incumbent. That said, there are...
Self-Made Billionaire Defies College, VC, Becomes Activist
He never attended college and couldn't raise any venture financing, but he built a $3.35B company anyway. Then he became an activist investor.
Great People, Great Places: Success Depends on Your Environment
Two weeks in NYC reminded me of something... If you want to build something great you have to be around great people, its really that simple and most ppl completely ignore it. Go look at who you're spending your time with,...
When Freedom Beats Passion: Why Founders Sell
What makes an entrepreneur sell their 'baby'? Financial freedom and ego are good reasons. Sometimes sticking around isn’t fulfilling either. Catch-22, but in that case, take the money? https://t.co/mctiyDJ76A
Fast Growth Breeds Hubris; Diversification Can Crash
#2 fastest-growing company in North America. 57,000% growth rate. Then we got cocky and lost millions. We were in the middle of building Quest Nutrition into a billion-dollar company. So we launched a clothing line called Quest Apparel. It was a catastrophic...
Stop Perfecting: Ship 80% and Scale
Most agency owners don’t delegate because they think nobody can do it like them. Perfection is the most expensive thing in your agency. Every hour you spend polishing something from 80% to 100% is an hour you’re not spending on the...
Scale to $1B AUM by Delegating, Leveraging Rainmaker Strengths
Scaling To $1B AUM By Recognizing Your (Rainmaker) Strengths And Delegating The Rest: #FASuccess Ep 484 With Jake Falcon explores how he attracts new clients and delegates plan preparation to give himself additional capacity as his firm surpasses one billion...
Startups Aren’t “Shitcoins”; Success Demands Patience and Bravery
Talking about "shitcoins" is like calling startups "shitcompanies". Yes, most startups fail, and many of the successful ones take time to reach global PMF. I have a lot of respect for those brave enough to launch something, and I'm certainly proud...
Keep Revenue in the Business, Not Personal Pockets
If you pay 40%+ taxes on your app income, your business model is probably broken. Especially if you’re doing $50k MRR as an autónomo. Poor founders think: “How do I get more cash into my pocket?” Rich founders think: “How do I keep more cash...
Bootstrapped Cryo‑AI: LLMs Power Life‑Saving Freeze Tech
Meet Dr. Mark Woodward, undergrad and grad from Stanford, PhD from Harvard, Many years at Google as part of Google brain. One day he realizes that we need the enabling technology to pause biological time for patients that are about...
Big MRR Doesn't Equal Profit—Check the Bottom Line
Revenue is not profit. When you see someone doing $50K MRR... it might seem like a lot, but you have to dig deeper to see what the real numbers are.
From Staging Tool to All‑In‑One Real Estate Marketing Suite
When we launched IACrea, it was a home staging tool Today it’s: → Photo motion → Video editor → Social media scheduler → Meta ads creation → Buyer & seller targeted leads A complete marketing software for real estate. Love to see how much the product evolves over...
Skill and Demand, Not Passion, Drive Successful Startups
“Follow your passion” is bad business advice. I’ve seen founders with passion go broke and founders with skill build firms. Passion ignores market demand, unit economics, and distribution. Rare skill + real demand + working numbers build companies. Before you quit your job, ask:...
YC AI Stack Offers $25k Credits, GStack Offers Skills
GStack doesn't give you money (it gives you free skills) but YC AI Stack can give you $25k in free credits.
Companies Are Living Super‑Organisms With Their Own Moral Compass
A lot of founders do not understand that the organizations we build are literally alive. They are super-organisms with their own moral compass. More thoughts in this clip from my chat with the Post-Exit Founders community and @barak_kaufman https://t.co/TODaBkr9ma
VCs Prefer High EQ Over Raw Intellectual Brilliance
If you’re in VC, whether you’re a founder or co-investor, what would you value more in an investor: IQ or EQ? I used to think IQ since I always try to surround myself with people smarter than me. However, after...
Founder Reality: The Pain and Suffering Is Real
If you’re a founder, you will appreciate this. The pain and suffering is real. https://t.co/jmgZBY7Wks
Bad Environment, Not Pay, Drives Top Talent Away
Your best people are leaving. If it was just money, you could fix it. This is different. The real reason is your environment doesn’t let them do their best work. You hired A-players and they became spectators. You hired people with taste...
Engineering Mastery Beats VC Hype for Massive Exit
How a one hour prototype built in a hotel room in Marrakech sparked a bidding war between Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman. Most founders spend their lives chasing the dragon of a 100 million euro exit. Peter Steinberger actually caught it. He...
Startup Struggles Are Universal, Not Unique
at least the things that really hard about your startup are likely to be hard for anyone coming after your startup, too
AI Empowers Solo Founder to Build $1B Business
In 2024, Sam Altman predicted that AI would enable a single person to scale a company to $1B in revenue - Matthew Gallagher launched Medvi, it’s on track to reach $1.8 billion in sales this year https://t.co/80T845nJzW #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology...
Scale Incrementally: Test, Tweak, Then Expand Gradually
A common “scale” strategy is “increasing waves.” Start with 1-10. Observe and tweak. Then 100. Observe and tweak. Then more, etc.. At scale, there’s no such thing as “deploy it now.”
AI Multiplies Engineers, Leaving PMs Squeezed—Hire More
Narrative violation: Anthropic's Head of Growth says we'll need more PMs, not fewer. "While PMs and designers are getting leverage from AI, engineering is getting the most leverage right now. If you think about a default team with 5 engineers, 1...
Earn 70% Profit by Monetizing Social Media Opinions
If you want to start a business that makes money, the simpliest is a posting opinions on social media where you have no overhead, no employees; just a smartphone or laptop. Pay corp tax but generally keep 70% of the revenue.
From Idea to 1.5M: HYROX’s Rapid Global Rise
HYROX has gone from concept to 1.5M participants globally in less than a decade. So how was it created and what's been the secret to its success? At SportsPro London, CEO & Co-Founder Christian Toetzke will join me on stage to break...
Charge More Now, Profit From Tomorrow’s Features
Founders: The best pricing defense is future value: 'Yes, we cost more today. But in 12 months when you need [upcoming feature], you'll thank yourself for choosing the platform that's investing in innovation.' Sell tomorrow's product today.
Pitch Annually: Grants Reveal Your Business Reality
Applying for Grants is a great exercise that forces you look at your Business as an actual business. It opens your eyes to your operations and financials that most people avoid, because they’re bringing in revenue. I recommend pitching your...
Now Is the Cheapest, Easiest Era to Launch a Startup
Best time in history to start a business - ~0 startup costs - can find any info you need w/ google/AI - connect w/ already-successful people on X w/ a DM - can hire employees all across the world for cheap - infinite scale...